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Facebook announced some intended changes to its data use policy to "enhance transparency", according to a Friday post on its Facebook and Privacy page.

On Facebook, deleting an app doesn’t delete your data from their system | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/on-facebook-deleting-an-app-doesnt-delete-your-data-from-their-system/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov.php

Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over

"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?' "And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information. People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
http://www.gizmodo.fr/2011/09/29/facebook-vous-agace-rendez-lui-la-pareille.html « Contre ce nouveau Facebook très indiscret, SVP rendez […]« . Ce genre de message pullule sur nos murs.

Facebook vous agace ? Rendez-lui la pareille. | Gizmodo

Facebook 's growth as an Internet social networking site has met criticism on a range of issues, including online privacy , child safety , and the inability to terminate accounts without first manually deleting the content. In 2008, many companies removed their advertising from the site because it was being displayed on the pages of controversial individuals and groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

Criticism of Facebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The anti-Facebook movement

http://anti-facebook-mvt.blogspot.com/ Le blog a été supprimé Nous sommes désolés, le blog à l’adresse anti-facebook-mvt.blogspot.com a été supprimé. Cette adresse n’est pas disponible pour de nouveaux blogs.
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/09/surprise-facebook-doesnt-like-privacy-countermeasures/

Surprise! Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures | jwz

German tech-news site Heise changed their "Like" buttons to be locally-hosted images that only transform into real Facebook "Like" buttons once you click them -- meaning that if you don't click anything, Facebook can't track you, and that actually "liking" the page requires two clicks. (Also presumably meaning that the page loads way faster.) Facebook responds:
Par Hubert Guillaud le 14/09/11 | 6 commentaires | 1,982 lectures | Impression Lors de la conférence de sécurité informatique Black Hat qui se tenait récemment à Las Vegas, Alessandro Acquisti , professeur agrégé de technologie de l’information et de politique publique à l’Ecole de Heinz de l’université Carnegie Mellon, a montré comment une photographie d’une personne pouvait être utilisée pour retrouver sa date de naissance, son numéro de sécurité sociale et d’autres informations en utilisant la technologie de reconnaissance faciale pour faire correspondre l’image à celles que l’on trouve sur les sites sociaux type Facebook.

Les limites de la fouille sociale de données « InternetActu.net

http://www.internetactu.net/2011/09/14/les-limites-de-la-fouille-sociale-de-donnees/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2011/08/08/facebooks-privacy-issues-are-even-deeper-than-we-knew/ Questions about what social networks mean for personal privacy and security have been brought to a head by research at Carnegie Mellon University that shows that Facebook has essentially become a worldwide photo identification database. Paired with related research, we’re looking at the prospect where good, bad and ugly actors will be able identify a face in a crowd and know sensitive personal information about that person. You're Tagged (Source: PittPatt.com)

Facebook's Privacy Issues Are Even Deeper Than We Knew - Forbes